re: Who was the first recruit you really followed?

1994- roommate had a strange magazine called "Jeff Whittaker's Deep South Recruiting". I was like a geek at a comic book convention. Couldn't put it down. It broke down recruits by state. Each player had a profile pic, rating, brief write up of accolades/stats, etc., and of course, each school in consideration. On the cover was a stocky TB from Carencro. The rest is history.